I'm not a h/w geek and need some help on this! Purchased a new Toshiba Protege R835-P70 yesterday with i5 2410-M chip. Why would it take twice as long -- 4 seconds -- to save a file that I use created by my company's proprietary program vs. only 2 seconds on BOTH my 2 year old HP dx 7500 desktop using a Core 2 Duo E8500 chip at 3.16 Ghz AND my husbands 4 year old Fujitsu Lifebook using a Core 2 Duo E7500 chip at 2.93 Ghz? It's a big deal to me b/c this is the file I work on for our company all day long. Is it all about the Ghz? This Toshiba model is known to load LOTS of bloatware? Could that be it? Thanks for any help on this chip stuff....I'm really surprised that both a 2- and 4-year old desktop and laptop would save my file twice as fast?

The time it takes to save a file is more then often due to how fast the hard drive spins (5400 rpm vs 7200 rpm vs ssd) then the actual processor speed

That and I'm sure there's a ton of bloatware installed on the laptop too. It's a shame OEM's still insist on loading up all this junk.

bb12, if you can, I'd suggest doing a clean install and see if that improves things. Otherwise, you'll probably want to consider buying a 7200RPM hard drive for the laptop, or go all out and get a SSD.

Did your laptop come with an OS reinstall disc?
If so, blast the OEM Windows install and start fresh with that disc. While reinstalling, use one of your other computers to get drivers for the reinstall. At the very least, get rid of the WildTangent, Norton NIS trial, and anything else that pops up when you boot your computer.

A Seagate Momentus XT is faster than any 5400RPM drive at the moment, but remember the flash portion only works when you're READING (e.g. to make Windows boot faster). It's a normal, but still snappy, hard drive when it comes to write. If time really means money for you AND you can't go with a desktop, I recommend equipping your laptop with a solid state drive and keeping any big files on an eSATA or USB 3.0 enclosure.

My Core i5 2410m beats out a 2.13GHz Core2Duo in [email protected] by around 30% (in TPF) so you should at least match the higher clocked C2Ds in processing. That said, your company's "proprietary" software may rely on clock speed only if it's poorly optimized. (e.g. was it programmed in the Pentium 4 days and never updated afterwards?) As dangtx said, we need to know what kind of workload you're talking about.

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